Word: gooder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OTHER ACTORS are more or less monotonic. Martin L. Kessler does nothing with the part of Robin Oakapple, the would-be do-gooder in that lingering line of n'er-do-wells, the Baronets of Ruddigore. Where he should be ridiculously eager, he is listless; where he should be bottomlessly downcast, he is listless. On the other hand, John B. McKean, who plays Oakapple's foster brother, is ceaselessly, aimlessly and rather awkwardly energetic. He is always swirling, prancing and dance-stepping. His good intentions and obvious relish for the part can neither overcome nor excuse the peculiar dialect...
OGUNQUIT, MAINE, Playhouse. Vivian Vance plays a do-gooder, named Mother of the Year, with five sons in P.W. camps, in Everybody's Girl, a new work by John Patrick (Teahouse of the August Moon). Complications spring from the fact that she's never been married...
...year, though one idea for a piece was remarkably sensible: the chronology of the year was scrapped in favor of an essay on the war and Harvard. But the traditional collection of undergraduate writing succumbed to a deathly five-essay section on why-I'm-a-work (-jock,-do-gooder, -singer, and -black militant, respectively...
...meanwhile has been slipping farther into irrelevance. While Stokes gibes at Taft for his monied background, Taft has hardly uplifted the campaign by harping on "carpetbagger" donations to Stokes from "people like Sammy Davis Jr." Nevertheless, the guttersniping has rebounded in Taft's favor, unstarching his early do-gooder image and unlimbering his political muscle. His record as a civil rights advocate is well known, and the unexpected vigor of his campaign has been impressive. "I think Stokes pushed him too far," said a Negro. "Taft has surprising guts...
...says Gardner. Breezy and humane, she is also a tough in-fighter known in the cautious corridors of government for her outspoken skill in dealing with timid planners. "She's the most sophisticated bureaucrat in the business," says Connecticut Senator and former HEW Secretary Abe Ribicoff, "a do-gooder who really knows...